US Pushes for New P2P Legislation

US Pushes for New P2P Legislation

The US government is set to approve a new legislation requiring  P2P sites to seek consent from an owner or authorized user of the PC. 
 

The new ruling,  Informed P2P User Act (PDF), has been proposed by Republican Henry Waxman who said he aims to "prevent the inadvertent disclosure of information on a computer through certain P2P file sharing programs without first providing notice and obtaining consent from an owner or authorised user of the computer".

 

The PDF is outlined to thwart furtive P2P software installations, describing all P2P software as all applicatons that create files on a computer "available for searching and copying to one or more other computers", or allows "the searching of files on the computer on which such program is installed and the copying of any such file to another computer".

 

If the US government agrees with the legislation, a similar act could consequently be submitted for the European Union and other jurisdictions.